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Here are some popular Google searches that pull up my blog as well as additional resources.

Annotated church membership records

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church, aka Mormons) “annotates” (places an “asterisk” on) membership records of gay members for various reasons one of which, purportedly, is to protect children from the gays. John Dehlin interviewed Benji Schwimmer about it here and there’s more about annotations of membership records here. If you want to watch full two-hour interview with Benji/John, you can find that here or click the image below.

I don’t think this is true… Thomas S. Monson, however, is the current president of the LDS Church. This search probably relates to the idea that Mormons are/were polygamists and married lots of young girls back in the day.

If same-sex marriage is legal then few babies will be born

Mathematically this doesn’t make any sense — providing rights for gay couples probably won’t change whether they’ll go out and have babies and it definitely won’t change whether straight couples have babies. If anything, legal protections will result in gay couples raising more children. This also sounds like the idea that if you “put all the gays on and island and they’ll all die out”. That may or may not be true, but at least you’ll move us some place awesome.

Bisexual LDS RM discussion boards, gay Mormon couples

I grouped these two popular searches together because it sounds like closeted gay Mormons looking for support groups or something along those lines. So… here are some support groups and resources for gay Mormons. The only one I participated in is North Star. The concept of North Star is unique and works for a lot of people — create a social network of gay Mormons who can support each other and create a community. The bad thing about it is there’s a lot going on behind the scenes (i.e., romance, exploration, etc.) that makes it a little volatile and is not the place for anyone who disagrees with the LDS Church’s stance on marriage equality.

One place you’re sure to find gay people — Cafe Ibis. I’ve heard gay people get together every Sunday around noon and call it “church”. If there are no gay people there, you’ll at least get to listen to live music and enjoy a cup of awesome coffee. Or you can just people watch and check out the counter culture on Federal Avenue. There’s a great sandwich place there too: The Italian Place so if you don’t like coffee or counter culture, you can get a good sandwich.

And if you just want to know where the nice people are in Logan, Utah, check out this Facebook group or follow John Dehlin on Facebook — he posts regularly about gay issues and get togethers. Ironically, a lot of allies have left the LDS Church or have mixed views on LDS history. It’s hard to find “faithful” or “true believing” Mormons who are okay with the gay.

For those of you Googling things like “gay sex in Logan Utah” or “gay missionaries in Logan Utah”, there’s an app for that.

And unfortunately there are no gay clubs in Logan, Utah. However, there is a gay club listed on FourSquare named Jordan but Google street view pulls up an elementary school. Someone has a sense of humor.

American Express offers specials through Four Square pretty regularly called Small Business Saturday. All you have to do is have an American Express card and a smartphone with the Four Square app. Then you spend $10 and American Express credits your account $10. It’s pretty simple. Dan and I have found this is a great way to try out new local restaurants and explore our town. And sometimes it’s just a great way to spend a Saturday. Here’s what we did today for small business Saturday.

We started off with subs at the Italian Place. Each sub is $6.50 totaling $13.00 for two. We paid $3.00 with the American Express + Four Square deal. To all the Logan locals: you really need to stop by the Italian Place some time. Their subs are the best in town! Seriously though.

The Italian Place, Logan UT

Our next stop was Cafe Ibis just across the street. We both got 20 oz mochas; I got a stroopwafel and Dan got baklava. Total cost after the American Express deal, $0.22. Total cost for our date, $3.22.

While at Cafe Ibis we Instagrammed any and everything possible. Here are the pictures we took.

Stroopwafel from Dan's perspective

Stroopwafel from Ryan's perspective

Me Instagramming

Dan Instagramming

Baklava at Cafe Ibis

20 oz mochas at Cafe Ibis

And the best part of all was the warm welcome Carmen and Misha gave us when we returned home. Here they are playing with the reflection of Dan’s phone.

The second best part of the day was that Dan let me win a few games of Super Smash Brothers after we played with the cats. Super Smash Brothers = awesome. All-in-all, today was awesome thanks to American Express and Four Square for giving us an awesome day date for just $3.22 (plus the gas to get there).